She Got the Best of Me explained

She Got the Best of Me
Cover:	She Got the Best of Me.png
Alt:	Color photograph of Luke Combs
Type:	single
Artist:	Luke Combs
Album:	This One's for You Too
Genre:	Country
Label:	Columbia Nashville
Producer:	Scott Moffatt
Prev Title:	One Number Away
Prev Year:	2018
Next Title:	Beautiful Crazy
Next Year:	2018

"She Got the Best of Me" is a song by American country music singer Luke Combs. He wrote the song with Rob Snyder and Channing Wilson. It is the fourth single from his debut album This One's for You, to which it was added as a bonus track.

Content

The song is a "soaring power ballad" in which the narrator says that a former lover "got the best of [him]" because he is unable to stop thinking of her. Combs said that he wrote the song four years prior to its recording, at a bar in Nashville, Tennessee called the Tin Roof.^[1] It was added to Combs's debut album This One's for You as a bonus track due to fan demand.^[2]

"She Got the Best of Me" is composed in the key of B major with a main chord pattern of E–B–Gm–F. The song has a moderate tempo in cut time.^[3]

Chart performance

"She Got the Best of Me" reached number one on the Billboard Country Airplay chart dated October 27, 2018, becoming Combs' fourth consecutive number one single, and making him the first solo artist to send all of his or her first four singles to number one since the inception of Nielsen SoundScan in January 1990, and the third act to do so overall, behind Brooks & Dunn and Florida Georgia Line.^[4] The song was certified Platinum on January 17, 2019 by the RIAA. It has sold 421,000 copies in the United States as of July 2019.^[5]

Music video

The music video was created by TA Films. The song contains references to previous videos of Combs's, including characters from the videos to "Hurricane" and "One Number Away", and visual references to other songs from Combs's album.^{[2] [6]}

Charts

Weekly charts

2018–2019 weekly chart performance for "She Got the Best of Me"! Chart (2018–2019)! Peak
position

Chart (2022–2023)! scope="col"

Peak position
Australia (ARIA)^[7]	59

Year-end charts

Chart (2018)! scope="col"

Position
US Country Airplay (Billboard)^[8]	39
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^[9]	23

Chart (2019)! scope="col"

Position
US Country Airplay (Billboard)^[10]	44
US Hot Country Songs (Billboard)^[11]	22
US Rolling Stone Top 100^[12]	88

Notes and References

1. Web site: Luke Combs to Release Fan Favorite "She Got the Best of Me" As Next Single. Reuter. Annie. One Country. October 1, 2018. October 2, 2018. https://web.archive.org/web/20181002020439/https://www.onecountry.com/country-music/luke-combs-new-single-best-of-me/. dead.
2. Web site: Luke Combs Chronicles His Career in 'She Got the Best of Me' Video. Houghton. Cillea. Taste of Country. 13 August 2018 . October 1, 2018.
3. Web site: 'She Got the Best of Me' sheet music . MusicNotes.com . 15 November 2018 . 21 November 2018.
4. Billboard Country Update - October 22, 2018. October 22, 2018. October 22, 2018. Billboard.
5. News: Top 30 Digital Country Songs: July 21, 2019. Matt . Bjorke . July 26, 2019 . Roughstock . July 26, 2019 .
6. Web site: Luke Combs Medicates Heartache in 'She Got the Best of Me' Video. Gage. Jeff. Rolling Stone Country. 13 August 2018 . October 1, 2018.
7. The ARIA Report: Week Commencing 28 August 2023. The ARIA Report. Australian Recording Industry Association. 1747. 4. August 28, 2023.
8. Country Airplay – Year-End 2018. Billboard. December 7, 2018.
9. Hot Country Songs – Year-End 2018. Billboard. December 7, 2018.
10. Country Airplay – Year-End 2019. Billboard. December 6, 2019.
11. Hot Country Songs – Year-End 2019. Billboard. December 6, 2019.
12. Top 100 Songs of 2019. Rolling Stone. January 10, 2020. February 16, 2020. March 7, 2020. https://web.archive.org/web/20200307013530/https://www.rollingstone.com/charts/songs/year-end/. dead.